Instrumentl is a well-known paid platform for nonprofit grant work, built around a searchable database that matches an organization to new funding opportunities, with tiered subscription plans and a free trial described on instrumentl.com/pricing. It is an ongoing service you sign up and pay for — the kind of tool a development team reaches for when the question is where is our next grant coming from.
That is a different question from the one this page answers. This tracker does not search for grants, does not know what funders exist, and has no database of opportunities. It exists for the narrower job that starts after an award is signed: keeping the reporting deadlines and remaining balance on the awards you already hold somewhere you will actually check.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| Where should we look for our next grant? | Instrumentl or another grant-prospecting service — a database of funders and opportunities is a job this page does not attempt. |
| When is the next progress or financial report due on an award we already have? | This tracker — enter the award date and reporting interval, get the current due date, and see it flagged overdue or due soon, with no signup. |
| How much of an award is still unspent, and how much cash is at risk if a report slips? | This tracker — it turns the award, spent amount, and next installment into a dollar figure at risk, and compares filing it yourself against hiring a contract writer. |
| Do we need proposal collaboration, funder relationship tracking, or team workflow across a whole grant program? | Instrumentl or a comparable paid platform — this page has no accounts, no team features, and remembers nothing about your organization between visits except what your own browser stores locally. |
This tracker is deliberately the opposite shape from a subscription platform: nothing to sign up for, nothing billed monthly, and nothing typed here ever leaves your browser. That makes it useful for one small organization that just needs to stop missing a report, and the wrong tool for a development team that needs to discover new funders or manage a large, active grant portfolio — that is exactly the job a paid platform like Instrumentl is built for.
It needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
They answer different questions. Instrumentl is a paid, ongoing subscription platform built around finding new grant opportunities to apply for, plus tools for the proposal and post-award stages, described on Instrumentl's own pricing page. This tracker does not find grants. It is a free, browser-only page for a narrower job: once you already hold an award, keeping its reporting deadlines and remaining balance somewhere you will actually check, with no account and nothing uploaded. A nonprofit that needs help discovering new funders is looking for the wrong tool here; a coordinator who already has awards and just needs to stop missing the next report is in the right place.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instrumentl. Instrumentl is named here only to describe what this tracker is and is not, based on Instrumentl's own public pricing page.
Open the Grant Deadline Tracker to add your own awards and reporting dates.